Rich Experience and Sparse Awareness: Sensing More Than We Know
Author:   Ariel Meir Berlinger (University of Haifa) ,  Baruch Eitam (University of Haifa)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781009757102


Pages:   75
Publication Date:   31 August 2026
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Rich Experience and Sparse Awareness: Sensing More Than We Know


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Consciousness is often treated as unitary phenomenon. We challenge this and propose a framework that parses it into two functionally distinct representational media. Reviewing dominant theories, as well as studies of perceptual failures, neural activity, visual search and attention – we argue that phenomenal experience arises early as a detailed, analogue, and relatively generic representation of the physical world. Awareness, a later and more idiosyncratic representation of the world, results from enriching phenomenal experience via relevance-filtered semantic knowledge. This Multi-Representational Media (MRM) account unifies perception, memory, and cognition, reconciles rich and sparse consciousness views, and reframes concepts in unconscious cognition research.

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Author:   Ariel Meir Berlinger (University of Haifa) ,  Baruch Eitam (University of Haifa)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781009757102


ISBN 10:   1009757105
Pages:   75
Publication Date:   31 August 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Not yet available, will be POD   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Framing the problem; 2. Empirical puzzles: what we see is not always what there is; 3. The current theoretical landscape; 4. The selective mind: from past to present; 5. The motivational Relevance of an Active Representation (ROAR); 6. Back to the early versus late consciousness debate: positioning phenomenal experience relative to the selection bottleneck(s).; 7. Bridging the gap: why keep the baby but change the bathwater?; 8. Rich versus poor consciousness; 9. Putting humpty dumpty together again: getting to the multi-representational-media model; 10. Coda and novelty; 11. References.

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